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Topic: Fajr-5 missiles

March 14, 2013
12:30 pm

Members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard celebrate after launching a missile, July 2012 (photo credit: AP/IRNA, Mostafa Qotbi)

Iran test fires ballistic missiles

Islamic Republic launches Fajr-5 rockets, used by Hamas to attack Israel, and longer range Nazeat 10

January 21, 2013
9:27 pm

An Iron Dome interceptor missile rising up to meet incoming rockets from Gaza on November 20, 2012. (photo credit: Mendy Hechtman/Flash 90)

Upgraded Iron Dome intercepts medium-range missile

Rafael and the Defense Ministry successfully test improved version of rocket interception system

By Ilan Ben Zion

January 4, 2013
10:15 am

Troops firing an anti-aircraft missile during training. (photo credit: Manuel Valdez, US Marine Corps/Department of Defense)

Egyptian forces capture American-made missiles headed for Gaza Strip

Anti-tank, anti-aircraft and other rockets discovered in secret depot south of el-Arish in Sinai

By Joshua Davidovich

November 28, 2012
10:57 pm

A billboard covered by Palestinian and Iranian flags with Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and English reading 'Thanks and gratitude to Iran,' in Gaza City on Wednesday. (photo credit: AP/Adel Hana)

Gaza Strip billboards thank Iran for help against Israel

Multilingual ads show the Dome of the Rock, Iranian and Palestinian flags, and the message ‘Thanks and gratitude to Iran’

November 26, 2012
7:08 pm

Israel Air Force targets a Fajr-5 launcher during Operation Pillar of Defense. (screen capture: Youtube/idfnadesk)

Fajr rockets up the name list

Gazans have a blast naming their children after icons of recent round of conflict with Israel

By Stuart Winer

November 25, 2012
1:05 pm

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah (screen shot: Press TV)

Hezbollah threatens to hit central Israel in future war

Nasrallah warns of ‘thousands of rockets that will fall on Tel Aviv and other areas’

November 25, 2012
6:54 am

A military exhibition displays the Shahab-3 missile under a picture of the Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Tehran, in 2008 (photo credit: AP/Hasan Sarbakhshian)

Fresh shipment of Iranian-made rockets reportedly already en route to Gaza

Cargo of ship loaded a week ago in Bandar Abbas may include Shahab-3 ballistic missiles to be stationed in Sudan, Sunday Times reports

By Times of Israel staff

November 24, 2012
11:17 pm

Mahmoud al-Zahar attends a demonstration in Khan Yunis in March (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib / Flash 90)

Iran to increase financial, military aid for Gazan terrorist groups, Hamas founder claims

Tel Aviv rocket attacks will make ‘Jews will think twice’ before attacking Iran, Mahmoud al-Zahar says

By Ilan Ben Zion

November 23, 2012
7:44 pm

Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, left, and Gaza's Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh, right, arrive for a cornerstone laying ceremony for Hamad, a new residential neighborhood in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, October 23 (photo credit: AP/Mohammed Salem)

Gaza’s mideast suitors

Hamas’s big brothers, Qatar and Iran, are pulling the Strip’s rulers in opposite directions

By Brian Murphy

November 21, 2012
5:53 pm

An Iron Dome missile is launched in Tel Aviv, to intercept a rocket fired from Gaza, Saturday, November 17, 2012 (photo credit: AP/Oded Balilty)

Iran says it supplied Hamas with long-range missile technology

Tehran provided Gaza fighters with information necessary to produce their own Fajr-5 rockets, Revolutionary Guard head announces

By AP and Elhanan Miller

November 21, 2012
3:38 pm

A rocket display in the southern town of Sderot, for years Hamas's primary target (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash 90)

From ‘sewage pipes with wings’ to sophisticated missiles

How Hamas acquired its 10,000-rocket arsenal

By Mitch Ginsburg

November 20, 2012
11:46 pm

An apartment building in Rishon Lezion that was hit by a Fajr rocket from Gaza on Tuesday evening (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Islamic Jihad official says his missiles are Iranian-made

Ziad Nakhaleh says Fajr-3 and Fajr-5 rockets have ‘returned the pride to the Palestinian people’

By Elhanan Miller

November 18, 2012
2:18 pm

A Be'er Tuvia house hit by a grad rocked fired from the Gaza Strip on Saturday, Nov. 17 (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Missile hits home near Be’er Tuvia as fire continues after brief lull

No reports of injuries; Iron Dome misfires near Ashdod; Channel 2 claims Egypt talks fall apart; School canceled in south again; Tel Aviv threatened for second time on Sunday; Obama says ‘preferable’ if escalation can be avoided but backs Israeli defense

By Times of Israel staff

November 18, 2012
9:52 am

Palestinians sort through the rubble of their destroyed home after an Israeli airstrike hit a Hamas official's house in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip on November 17 (photo credit: Wissam Nassar/Flash90)

New technology, tactics create different battleground realities in Gaza

Four years after Cast Lead, the IDF finds itself once again heavily targeting terrorists in the Strip, so far with little collateral damage

By Aron Heller

November 16, 2012
8:21 pm

Border Police officers search for the remains of a missile that was shot from the Gaza Strip by Hamas and landed near the settlement bloc of Gush Etzion. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘Surprise’ rocket fire at Jerusalem shows Hamas flailing but still seeking to escalate the conflict

Gaza’s Islamists, far from cowed, are pushing to their limits in a bid for ‘an achievement’

By Mitch Ginsburg

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